So far, more than $6 billion in projects and over 10,000 jobs have been wiped out in GOP districts alone.

Seems like 10,000 of them would have benefited from full time jobs.

But that article is all over the place. It reads like copy-paste a bunch of loosely related facts without actually organizing it. No AI could have written it that poorly

They claim it was a mistake …… so all the retaliatory funding freezes are cancelled, right? RIGHT?

The announced price was better than most EVs. I’m not interested in a truck but was tempted to preorder for the announced price and features. Now, years later, no effing way would I have followed through

A lot of choices don’t seem to be available in the US - Hyundai/kia seems best of what else is available in a lot of ways. I originally hoped the legacy American manufacturers were getting their shit together but it looks like they’re crawling back under their rocks.

I guess my biggest hope is that Lucid or Rivian are able to break out into mass production of their next generation

puzzling economists

What cult member posing as an economist is puzzled by that?

Yeah, it’s unfortunate. I bought mine when we could still ignore the red flags and it’s still my favorite car feature wise, there are still so many things it does better than any car, still so many features not available on other vehicles for any price. The comparisons with Apple are apt - I could have been a lifelong customer. But wtf mental illness happened here? For the first time ever I’m embarrassed by what I drive. I don’t know what I’ll do next time I need a car, but it won’t be a Tesla without radical changes in leadership - and that Nazi is only the start. Every board member and executive who thinks that’s ok has to go

The Aztec concept car was excellent! I have no idea how they turned that into that mess of a production vehicle

If only people saying that were aware of their logic flaw of also cutting funding to fusion research

It’s probably as simple as we already have something successful. Why spend time and effort overcoming the challenges to create new reactor technology with many of the same benefits and shortcomings as we already have?

I know the arguments for thorium and can see that being a huge benefit to places without a mature nuclear industry and without developed fuel sources.

Sure it would be somewhat better for us as well, but the biggest limitations will be the same. You’re still impeded by fears of radioactivity even if it is less. You still have radioactive waste to handle even if it’s less and less long lasting. You still have legal and regulatory challenges driving costs and timelines through the roof. Thorium hasn’t won the war of public perception, so is no better in the things that actually impede its use

So it’s wrong that China manufactures everything, simply because we sent it all there?

There were video games before NES. Do t discriminate against old gamers

The aid is still there. There are no cuts. It’s not our fault you don’t meet the poverty standards. /s

Much of what Trump is doing is also illegal here. The problem is who can hold him accountable? He appointed a Supreme Court majority that declared him immune “for official acts” and a slim legislative majority that seems ok with him usurping their authority. He declared existing unions as illegal and eliminated due process. Where did all our checks and balances go?

Don’t let that happen to you

Who’s the snowflake now?

Yeah my kids are 1/8 and I encouraged them to learn about that part of their heritage but no, they’re just American.

I can definitely imagine that: there were so many “James” in my family. Then again, my brothers middle name was much worse so that may be a reason he never tried

Sure, plausible …… smash her window and drag her out of her car with no warrant, no exigent circumstances, just a verbal claim that sounds like a pretense these days …. Insanity is right

That 52 year old woman. Prime gang demographic

And the worst case scenario for him is people start reading his drivel to get in on the grift

Plausible deniability - there was a public recommendation by a stable genius. Maybe people read his media site and follow his recommendations. Stranger things are happening every day

And orangeboi made himself above the law